Center for Legal Aid Education

Designing and Delivering Great Training

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By design, Designing and Delivering Great Training is flexible enough to accommodate different local specifications and needs. It is, however, like all CLAE courses, premised on the belief that teaching others – whether community members, lay advocates, or peers – is an essential facet of effective advocacy. In addition, Designing and Delivering Great Training recognizes, and demonstrates, that learning is most potent when interactive and reflective of participants’ experience and goals. Upon these foundations, and always while working toward a concrete training goal, this course helps to identify the learning characteristics of audiences, the instructional methods most suited to meeting different ends, and the implications of using a range of teaching techniques.

Anyone who teaches others on a regular basis will benefit from this training, most especially if you have a specific training in mind that can be developed.

Further Information

Designing and Delivering Great Training is presented through the support and partnership of the Practising Law Institute and features the expertise of David Cruickshank, one of the nation's leading authorities on adult and legal education methods.

David, a former law professor and practitioner in Canada, was most recently Director of Professional Development at Paul Weiss, Wharton & Garrison in New York. He is now a partner in the international consulting firm of Kerma Partners.

Note: We are currently offering this training for NE Consortium members only November 17 & 18, 2011.

If you are a NE Consortium Member and would like to register online or mail in your registration click the registration tab above for more information.

Topics covered in this course include:

Learning Objectives and Training Design

Lecture Design and Presentation

Panel Design and Presentation

Small Group Practice

Taking It Home

The Characteristics of Adult Learners

Training Techniques and Methods

Training Theory Into Practice

Understanding and Responding to Different Audiences

Faculty for this course:

David Cruickshank

David Cruickshank

David Cruickshank advises law and other professional services firms on practice management, leadership development and talent retention strategies.